A Fate of Shadows and Flames

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As a human raised among fae Aria has never felt like she truly belongs in the enchanting Court of Flames. Surrounded by the constant barrage of </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>thinly veiled hostility</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> by everyone around her she's learned to keep her head down her lips sealed and her heart guarded. Even her adoptive father King Pyrros who rescued her after her </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>human parents were slaughtered</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> treats her like an outsider.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>But as her twenty-first birthday approaches the king's sudden attention to Aria unnerves her more than ever before.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>To Harlequin the charismatic yet ruthless prince of a rival kingdom The Court of Shadows Aria would be the perfect pawn to tip the scales of the brewing tension between the courts. He concocts a scheme to </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>kidnap her and leverage her captivity</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> to force Pyrros into submission giving him no choice but to retreat.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>But it's a deadly miscalculation.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The girl he intended to manipulate is not so easily tamed. As the line between</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em> captor and captive</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> begins to blur her presence ignites conflict in his kingdom threatening his precarious hold on the throne.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When Aria uncovers long buried truths about her past her role in the growing conflict between kingdoms is made </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>painfully clear</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. Now she must trust Harlequin -her </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>once-sworn enemy</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>- and work with him to end the war before it destroys the world to which she so desperately wants to belong. If they can't bring an end to the war and restore peace across the land countless lives will be lost and Aria will have no home her future will be ruined and she'll be left completely alone...</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>forever</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>.</span></p>